Capacity Intake and Strategy Lead, Business Controls Team, Data Center Construction
Job Overview
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Date PostedMarch 20, 2026
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Job Description
2026-03-19T19:29:15.064Z
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Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Reston, VA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, or a related technical field.
- 8 years of experience in program or project management.
- 8 years of experience validating technical inputs.
- 8 years of experience building demand-vs-deployment.
- 8 years of experience in mission critical programs (e.g., Data Centers), with a focus on Design, Delivery, Scheduling, and Estimating.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or Advanced degree in Strategy/Analytics.
- 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience in Finance, Project Controls, Data Center/Hyperscale Construction Management.
- Experience in data center construction, hyperscaler, or mission critical industry.
- Experience in planning cash flow curve development with the ability to link physical progress (Schedule/Delivery) to financial forecasting and business controls.
- Ability to translate complex technical risks into clear, high-level “optionality” and strategic recommendations for executive leadership.
About the job
A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It’s your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
As a Capacity Intake and Strategy Lead role within the Business Controls Team, you will serve as the critical intake point between Demand Planning demand and execution teams within Google Data Centers. In this role, you will deeply understands the mechanics of Design, Delivery, Schedule, and Estimating and coordinates with internal organizational technical leads to provide rapid response to upstream partners. You will be responsible for orchestrating the end-to-end intake strategy for the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) execution teams. By integrating complex systems and analytics and effective coordination, you will analyze and provide risk-adjusted options that provide leadership and Capacity Planning teams with clear options and “levers” for rapid response.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google’s product portfolio possible. We’re proud to be our engineers’ engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate the strategic integration of Capacity Intake across Design, Delivery, Scheduling, and Estimating teams to ensure a unified approach to capacity response and resource allocation.
- Utilize deep domain knowledge in design and construction workflows to develop sophisticated demand-versus-deployment scenarios and evaluate the technical risks and benefits of various deployment options.
- Support the integration of data systems to automate analytics, providing real-time visibility into the capacity pipeline and organizational throughput, and lead the analysis of complex planning cash flow curves.
- Provide the Capacity Planning Teams with actionable optionality through data-driven modeling, and develop strategic “levers”—such as project sequencing or resource shifts—to provide rapid-response solutions as needed.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
